No, really and truly, no: Rob, Stacy, and I did NOT realize we were organizing a chat about fear for Friday the 13th...! It just happened that way. :-)

Please feel free to comment with advance materials that people might want to look at. See bottom of this post for resources. And please help us come up with some good questions! You can leave comments here or tweet (use #OpenTeachingOU hashtag).Tentative questions: Please suggest other ideas in the comments section!

Q1. What are some main sources of fear for you in your work? For your students? What effects do you see?
Q2. What are some models and theories that help you better understand and cope with fear?
Q3. What are the biggest scarcity issues in your own work? Your students' work?
Q4. Have you found good scarcity solutions for yourself? Solutions that you can promote and share with students?
Q5. How do terms like security and safety fit into your principles and practices as an educator?
Q6. What role can educational institutions play in coping with fear, scarcity, and (in)security among faculty and students?

(IN)SECURITY. Everyone has been wrestling with the idea of "security" in terms of computer security for many years, and now the notion of safety has taken on a new twist in the debate about trigger warnings. There have been lots of articles on this topic in Inside Higher Ed, Chronicle of Higher Ed, and in general publications like Salon and The Atlantic. Just Google "trigger warning" to get a sense of how the debate is shaping up.